Mac OSX server command equivalent for dhclient?
To renew the lease:
sudo ipconfig set <interface> DHCP
Usually interface is en0 or en1.
To see all the gory details, run sudo ipconfig setverbose 1
before you run the above, then tail /var/log/system.log. After you're done, remember to run sudo ipconfig setverbose 0
to turn it off again.
Pavan Kumar
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Pavan Kumar over 1 year
Is there an MacOS command that makes a dhcp request, and renews the old lease, drops it for a new one, or usefully reports errors or lack of response from a dhcp server?
This would both help fix networking on the machine after problems on the network without rebooting and would also be useful to diagnose wider networking problems from a mac.
I can not find any command equivalent of
dhclient
though obviously some component must be serving this purpose. The question is, is that component exposed to a command line interface?I am biased to the command line for these features and may have overlooked settings panels or tools that might solve it using a gui interface.
I believe this question is at the heart of this other question: Is there an equivalent command for 'init.d/networking restart' in OS X
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John Gardeniers over 11 yearsGood question but is there any particular reason you're not doing this through the GUI?
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Pavan Kumar over 11 yearsGUI's are subjected to more changes and the results are harder to capture where as the commands could even be an
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mdiianni over 9 yearsUsually happens to me when I lock my Mac and log in to my session back again I lost DNS config or resolv.conf doesn't work. So this command saved me the task of disconnecting and reconnecting back to the network to fix it. Thanks.
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Timo about 2 yearsI did
sudo ipconfig setverbose 1
and thensudo ipconfig set <my special lan interface> DHCP
but no output on console nor new output in system.log.